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Great work!

One small thing: Busybox 1.0.0 final is out - will it be included in 0.8.4?
Quote (reidar @ Oct. 28 2004,04:12)
One thing came up though, as I tried to do a hd-install. I selected enhanced, but it seems as if the scripts are not updated according to the newly organized mirror, so I couldn't get an enhanced install through the script.

I had the same problem. O_o

You can simply grab the gnu-utils.dsl and install it yourself to get the "enhanced" install.

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One small thing: Busybox 1.0.0 final is out - will it be included in 0.8.4?


I suppose it is quite possible that it will, but my money is on the next release being 0.9.0, since we haven't had a release above 0.x.3 since the old 0.4.x days. ^_^

-J.P.
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One thing came up though, as I tried to do a hd-install. I selected enhanced, but it seems as if the scripts are not updated according to the newly organized mirror, so I couldn't get an enhanced install through the script. I guess this is just a small issue in the script that could easily be corrected.
Another thing I wonder about: it seems that 0.8.3 automatically loads any backup it could find, without me adding 'dsl restore=hda2' or something like that to the boot. Is this supposed to be so? I can see that it is nice sometimes, but I started up the cd with a usb-stick attached, and on this stick I had an old backup, which automatically loaded. Is there any way to not load a backup-file if it is present?


You can use the "norestore" command at the boot: prompt during initial bootup to bypass the autorestore.
Or, simply put your choice of backup in the usual way.
"restore=hda3" or whatever..

The gnu-utils.dsl situation should now be resolved for
enhanced HDInstalls ..  
Leftover pains from moving to a new repository structure.
All in good time..  
Thanks for the feedback..

73
ke4nt
The hard drive install "enhanced" problem was caused by the change in directory structure, same for the dpkg-restore. Both have been corrected. Both have nothing to do with the downloaded iso. So, no need to download/burn/create DSL, just try the process again. The correction was made on the remote site. Actually the correction was made right away. Hopefully not many had to have your experience.
Hmm. Even though my usb wireless thingie is detected at boot, now, it still doesn't set up the DHCP client properly. It says "Performing DHCP broadcast on wlan0failed", just like after I would modprobe it on the command line and run netcardconfig, before I wrote that script.

But the script still works, so I'm okay. :)

-J.P.
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